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To effect this collection, Surbiton, at a cost of
between £5000 and £6000, constructed an iron outfall
sewer '27 inches in diameter, starting from the
boundary of the District in Portsmouth Road, midway
between Catherine and Uxbridge Road, and
passing along the Portsmouth Road, through the
Kingston Market Place and Thames Street, to the
sewage works.
The agreement between the two places was
that Surbiton should pa)' a fixed charge of £300
per annum, then 2| per cent, on €27,357, which
represented the original capital outlay, and a proportion
according to the rateable value of the cost
of treatment, maintenance and repairs; also the sum
equal to the product of a rate of 3d. in the pound
on the rateable value, and these charges for some
years worked out at something over £3,000 per
annum until 1901, when a fresh agreement was
entered into to meet the cost of extra pumping
consequent upon the amount of sewage delivered at
the works when swollen with storm, water being in
excess of the maximum agreed upon the involving
additional and continuous pumping, and to meet
this another £600 a year had to be paid, so that at
present the total cost works out at from £3,800 to
£4,000 a 3Tear.
The next thing was that Mr. Guilford, who
was Chairman of this Council from 1887 to 1896,
was instrumental with the Council in acquiring
some 52 acres of ground in Maiden Parish, along
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